East Coast Music Awards Recap

From May 2nd-6th, we hung out in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the East Coast Music Awards. The ECMA Festival and Conference is now a five-day, non-stop musical celebration showcasing and recognizing the best of East Coast artists and music. The internationally recognized event gathers Canadian musicians from the East Coast, music industry professionals, and music fans to learn from the industry's most respected players and watch some of the country's brightest rising stars. This year, we presented the award for Electronic Recording of the Year, and had the chance to interview the five incredible nominees and watch them perform during…

How To Get The Most From Your Roland RD-800

Your Roland RD-800 Stage Piano is at home. And you love it. But now, you’re ready to do more. We’ve received a lot of questions about taking your RD-800 to the next level, such as: “How do I layer tones?” “How can I create the perfect acoustic piano sound on my RD-800?” “How can I…

Create Your Own Piano Tone

As a life long piano player, I’m pretty picky about my piano feel and sound. So when we received our first RD-800 Stage Piano back in the middle of November, I was curious how it would stack up to its predecessor, the RD-700NX. When I first took the RD-800 out of the box, the first thing I noticed was…

Updates for the Roland FP Series Pianos Now Available!

As of December 9th, 2013, there is a user installable firmware update available for the class leading Roland FP Series pianos. Version 1.10 adds 3 major user requested functions to both the FP-50 and FP-80 Pianos. The new functions include: A great organ sound requires control over the Rotary Speaker effect. Now you can control…